Fall Fairy...

No Spring nor Summer Beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one Autumnal face. -John DonneHAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! Hope everyone's Holiday is going Ghoulishly Good!

This week's Cupcake Inspiration is moving on from Halloween and picking up the delicious colors and textures of Fall. We were sponsored this week by Woodware USA Clear Stamps, so I pulled out my little Fairy Tots and made a card inspired by the colors and flowers on the cupcake.

I used a recycled Product Catalog for the patterned paper, I had a few stuck away from when I had the stamp store and a few of them had samples of the paper on the front cover! This pattern is from the TPC Studio 2009 Catalog. :)

Here is a peek at the felt spiral flower I made. I just cut a scalloped Nestie circle of felt, then cut it into a spiral and wrapped it up...

Supplies:
Stamps: Fairy Tots
Paper: TPC Studios Catalog, Summer Sunrise, Vintage Cream & Ripe Avocado CS (PTI,) Really Rust (SU)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento,) Copic Markers, White Pigment Ink
Misc: Pearls, Stickles, Wistful Ribbon (Pixie Petals,) Felt (MFT,) Nestie Die, Pearl Brad (Making Memories)

Challenges:
Cupcake Inspiration Challenge:
Mercy's Tuesday Sketch:
Easy Craft Project: Autumn/fall
Spoonful of Sugar: Die cuts/punches
Simon Says Stamp:Punches/die cuts
Inktegrity: Anything Goes
Crafty Creations: Autumn
Polka Doodles: Autumn
Bugaboo: Fall
Alphabet Challenge: A is for Angels and Fairies
Secret Crafter: Anything that flies

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P.S. Here is a shot of the Glitter "Y" I made for my friend's costume (She was Adam Lambert, her costume was Perfect! Right down to the big glittery letter on the hat...just a Y instead of the A for Adam!)

P.S.S. Just so you know, adults can Trick or Treat too! :) Here is the haul I got at work Friday during the Costume Parade around the office. :)

Purple Skull...

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it. -Debbie Harry
This week's Blogger's Challenge is "Halloween" and you all know how much I Love Halloween! :) I am currently sitting at my desk wearing a Black Dress, Black Boots, Black & Purple Floppy, Felt Witch Hat and a Purple and Black Spider Web Cape!

I recently made a little Halloween Wall Decor for myself (that I may hang in my bedroon year round!) A friend saw the pictures and wanted a Purple one! I grabbed an 8" Unfinished Skull from Say it with Letters and went to work. I was out of spiderweb and bat rubons, so I used a Crow and just left the spiderwebs off the frame, but I think it still turned out pretty good. She seems to like it, so that is what matters most!


Supplies:
Stamps: None
Paper: SU Halloween Web Paper
Ink: Black Copic marker (to color crystal swirl)
Misc: Acrylic Paint, Glitter, Prima Crystal Swirl, Crow Rub On, 10" Square frame, 8" Skull Shape

Challenges:
Blogger's Challenge: Halloween
Paper Playtime: Halloween
Ooh La La: Scary Stuff
Sweet Stampin: Anything But A Card
Papertake: Sparkle & Bright
Create with Connie & Mary: Halloween Haunts
ABC Challenges: G is for Glitter

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I had a Secret...

And now I can TELL!!! :) WOO HOO!!!

Anita at Anita Be Stampin was sweet enough to let me join her Design team!!! :)

I just LOVE the images she has and I can't wait to play with all the fun stuff!!!!

Check out all the talented ladies I will be working with!!!

Anita - Owner

Angela

Jacquie

Joni

Lelia - DT Coordinator

Rene’

Suzanne

Tracy

Happy Balloon...

who knows if the moon's
a balloon, coming out of a keen city
in the sky - filled with pretty people? -e.e. cummings

This week's Woodware USA Challenge is to use Halloween Colors. I actually don't have any Halloween stamps from Woodware (Can you Believe that???) so I decided to use Halloween Colors in a Non-Halloween way. I grabbed my Mixed Greetings and my Birthday Fun sets and made a quick, clean & simple card using one of my A Muse polka dot 4 bar cards.

I stamped the sentiment and the balloon straight onto the card, then I stamped the balloon onto a piece of Cream CS and colored it with Copic markers. I then paper pieced the balloon onto the card and added some Crystal Effects to make it shiny.

Here is a shot of the Crystal Effects...

Supplies:
Stamps: Mixed Greetings & Birthday Fun (Woodware USA)
Paper: Kitchen Green 4 Bar Card (a muse artstamps)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento,) Copic Markers
Misc: Crystal Effects

Challenges:
Woodware USA: Halloween Colors
SCS Inspiration Challenge:
Dutch Dare: Purple, Green, Orange, Black
Flourishes: No Buttons or Bows
Inktegrity: Anything Goes
Wild Orchid: Pastels

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Halloween Hi...

For a charm of powerful trouble; Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. -William ShakespeareThis week's Cupcake Challenge has all kinds of fun Halloween images, Frankenstein, Witches, Ghosts and even a Haunted House! I went with the witch because I really wanted to use the Broomhilda Image from this week's Challenge Sponsor, Anita Be Stampin. I Love this Sexy, Round Witch, she has attitude AND thighs! :) LOL

(I added the Spider Tattoo on her arm, that is not part of the original image.)

All of the sentiments that come with this set are perfect, I had a hard time choosing!

Supplies:

Stamps: Broomhilda (Anita Be Stampin,) Halloween Ticket Sentiments (Raindrop Echo)
Paper: 365 Degrees (Pink Paislee,) Black, Orchid, Green & White CS
Ink: Printer, Tuxedo Black (Memento,) Copic Markers, Old Paper (Ranger,) Pumpkin Pie (SU)
Misc: Zva Crystal Swirls, Spiderweb CB Folder, Zva Crystals

Challenges:
Cupcake Inspiration:
Stamptacular Sunday:
Creative Craft:Trick or treat
Creative Cottage: Halloween
2 Sisters: Halloween
Stamp with Fun: Halloween
Double Dutch: Boo to you
My Time to Craft: Halloween
Tuesday Throwdown: Anything Goes
Dutch Dare: Purple, Orange, Black & Green
CRAFT Challenge: Spooky
Stamp Something: Digi

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Sweet Treat...

If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -H Jackson Brown Jr
This week's Woodware USA Challenge is "Anything but a Card." I decided to try out a "Matchbook Treat." I used Traditional Christmas Greetings for the image and the sentiment and a little bit of the new Memory Box Christmas paper (here is my secret, the patterned paper is a piece I cut off the Memory Box Catalog I got in the mail!)

The mints are glued inside the bottom flap just by the wrapper...
Here is a side view with the mints peeking through the side...
Supplies:
Stamps: Traditional Christmas Greetings (Woodware USA)
Paper: Tinsel (Memory Box,) Cool Caribbean, Cranberry Crisp, White
Ink: Cranberry Crisp, Black
Misc: Gems, Snowflake Sticker, Twill Ribbon

Challenges:
Woodware USA Challenge: Anything but a Card
Blogger's Challenge: Recycle/ReUse (Catalog Patterned Paper)

No Time To Stamp - Metal or stones

Mami Doodles - Thanksgiving and christmas cards

Gingerloft - Winter

Tuesday Throwdown - Anything goes
If the Shoe Fits- Any holiday
Paper Cutz- Anything Goes
Charisma Cardz- More than one fold

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Music Saves My Soul #5...

Another Saturday...time for Marcea's Music Saves my Soul

I'm sharing another weird one this week. I grew up on Jefferson Airplane (And Jefferson Starship and Starship) and this is one of my favorites.

Little Witch...

I'm not a witch, I'm your wife. But after what you just said, I'm not even sure I want to be that any more. -Valerie, The Princess Bride

This week's Blogger's Challenge is to use Black, White and Orange. I knew I wanted to make a Halloween card and I have been Dying to color my new Anita Be Stampin image, Tabitha so that is what I did. :) I pulled out my Pumpkin Cuttlebug folder and added a little dimension with white ink...the Glitter Dots are the last of the black ones I had in my stash, I have had those for YEARS! The layout is for this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch...

For the inside I printed the Batty image 3 times in varying sizes and opacity, the sentiments are both from Anita Be Stampin too!

Supplies:
Stamps: Tabitha, Broomhilda (Anita Be Stampin)
Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Black, White
Ink: Printer, Copic Markers, Black, White
Misc: Koh-i-noor Pencil (For the Black stuff,) OMS, Glitter Dots, Cuttlebug Folder, MFT Scallop Edge Die, White Gel Pen, Yellow Gel Pen, Black Glitter Pen

Challenges:
Blogger's Challenge: Orange/Black/White
Sweet Sunday:
Crafty Ann's Challenge: digi and favorite coloring medium (Copics)
Easy Craft Projects: Halloween
Fussy & Fancy: Halloween
Bee Crafty: Halloween
Create 4 Fun: Digi stamp
Ooh La La: Nothing Floral
The Pink Elephant: Childhood
Creative Craft:Trick or treat
Everybody Art: Halloween
Creative Cottage: Halloween
Stampin Royalty: Halloween
Moving Along with the Times: Halloween
Stamp Something: Halloween Somethings
Stampin For the Weekend: Halloween

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In Stitches...

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein -UnknownThis week's Woodware USA Challenge is Faux Stitching. I love this technique, but forget to pull out my Mat Stack! I'm glad this was the challenge...I may leave my Paper Piercer out on the desk for awhile!!

I had fun playing with the little flowers included in the Mixed Greetings set. I had a piece of leftover Kraft CS sitting on my table and it made a smaller than normal card, so the small scale flowers were perfect! My card base measures 3" x 4.25". I grabbed the color from a Pretty pair of Earrings at the Lemon Kissed Etsy shop (This week's Shop on Etsy Inspired Challenge.) Once I knew the color I wanted to use I saw my new Wistful Ribbon I won from Pixie Petals (through Etsy Inspired!! :D)

Simple stamped inside...Supplies:
Stamps: Mixed Greetings (Woodware USA)
Paper: Kraft, White, Melon Berry (PTI)
Ink: Pretty in Pink, Cranberry Crisp, Chocolate Chip (SU,) Melon Berry (PTI)
Misc: Zva Pearls, Stickles, Crinkled Seam Binding, Vintage Button, Liquid Pearls, Scrappers Floss, Pop Dots

Challenges:
Woodware USA: Faux Stitching
Etsy Inspired:
Crazy 4 Challenges: Birthdays
My Sheri Crafts: In Stitches
Totally Papercrafts: Buttons & Bows
Stamp Something: Punches (Corner Rounder on all layers)
Wild Orchid: Stitch it Up

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Crafts n Things...

Today is the day the December Crafts n Things magazine hits the newsstands and guess what?!?! Yep, one of my cards is in it! :) There are So many wonderful projects in this edition! Christmas Wonderland I tell you!!!!

Look for my card, here is a peek...

Poppy Birthday...

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe. -John Berger This week's Cupcake Inspiration Challenge is sponsored by A Passion for Stamps...I went looking for a flower image to play along with this week's cuppie and had a hard time picking! I Love the Lily, the Two Roses, the Black Eyed Susan and sooo many more!!! Since I wanted to go with Black and a deep red orange I grabbed the Poppy! I printed 3 of the images, then colored one very minimally and one with depth and shadow. I cut up the fully colored one for the pop up portions (petals, leaves and bud.) Then I colored just the center petals of the third image and cut it out an curled it abit before I glued it on. I used a Prima Say It With Crystals embellishment in the center, then I added glitter to the petals...with Stickles, of course! :)

I am In Love with the New Frame It from Waltzing Mouse, can't Wait to grab them up, but for now I made my own...It was not Too hard, but I Definitely want the straight, even lines of the stamp!

I went pretty simple for the inside since the outside is soooo Clean & Simple...
Supplies:
Stamps: Poppy (A Passion for Stamps,) Traditional Christmas Greetings (Woodware USA)
Paper: Black, White, Orange (Papertrey Ink)
Ink: Printer, Micron .08 Black Pen, Copic markers
Misc: Say it with Crystals, Stickles, Straightline Ruler

Challenges:
Cupcake Inspiration Challenge:
Creative Inspirations: Birthday
Fab n Funky: Digi
Creative Card Crew: Blooming Marvelous
Crazy 4 Challenges: Birthday
Party Time Tuesdays: BIRTHDAY and anything goes
Crafty Calendar: Birthdays
Spoonful of Sugar: Sparkle and shine
Glitterbabe: anything goes plus sparkle
Crafty Ann's: digi and your favorite coloring medium (Copics)
Stamp Simply: back to nature
Create 4 Fun: Digi stamp
Ellephantastic: Anything Goes

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Crazed Pumpkins...

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ~George Carlin
This week's Blogger's Challenge is a sketch. I wasn't sure what I was going to do until I saw these Imaginisce chipboard shapes sitting on my table. My son had been creating cards earlier and left a few for me. LOL :) I paired the crazy little jack-o-lanterns with some left over Making Memories Halloween paper from last year.

These guys look like they belong in straight jackets, don't they?

I used an old $1 stamp from Mike's to decorate the inside...

Supplies:
Stamps: Happy Halloween (a muse,) Spiderweb (Mike's)
Paper: Spooky Alley (Making Memories,) Black, Orange, Vanilla (PTI)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Misc: Chipboard Shapes, Gems, MFT Scallop Edge Die

Challenges:
Blogger's Challenge:
I did it Creations: Halloween
One Stitch at a Time: Halloween
Lexi's Creations: Spooky
Simon Says Stamp: Halloween
Paper Romance: Halloween
Stamp Insanity- Halloweeen
ECP challenges: Halloween
Stamp Something: Punches/Dies

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